In the pantheon of unnecessary legacy sequels — distant continuations that dig up decades of history to occasionally transcendent but mostly exasperating effect — it’s hard to come up with a film that ...

The longevity of John G. Avildsen's 1984 sports movie "The Karate Kid" is one of the more baffling phenomenons of my generation. The original flick followed a New Jersey kid named Daniel LaRossa ...

Taking an amusingly formulaic “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” approach, Karate Kid: Legends echoes the plot of both the 1984 original and the 2010 Karate Kid films with its familiar underdog story ...

Ben Wang is lithe and captivating as the ain't-that-a-kick-in-the-head hero, who moves from Beijing to New York and winds up with two training gurus. But enough “Karate Kid” housekeeping! The key ...

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The selling point of “Karate Kid: Legends” is the pairing of initial franchise star Ralph Macchio and Jackie Chan, a star of the 2010 reboot that shares the title of the 1984 original, “The Karate Kid ...

The reviews and Rotten Tomatoes score for Karate Kid: Legends are out, suggesting critics have mixed feelings about the Jackie Chan-led movie. It is all set to arrive in U.S. theaters on Friday, May ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Variety: “The film dunks us in a storyline so simple, so unironic, so cheesy-sincere, so analog ...

The Karate Kid franchise was born in 1984 with a shamelessly formulaic underdog movie, was refreshed with a 2018-25 TV series, “Cobra Kai,” which gave the story an amusing tweak (the reformation of a ...

A redundant legacyquel to the iconic martial arts film franchise introduces a bunch of new characters to act out the freshest storylines of 1984. But more importantly, “The Karate Kid,” for as much as ...